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In part 1 I explained why the Fed can’t raise interest rates without triggering another recession. In part 2, I wrote about why the Fed can’t raise interest rates without causing a stock market crash. For part 3 I am going to explain...

The S&P 500 slipped in three sessions during the week shedding 3.02%. The index has retreated in four of the past five weeks and has finished 14 of the past 22 sessions lower.The preliminary report of fourth quarter GDP released Friday came in...

The real GDP or gross domestic product—the value of the production of goods and services in the United States, adjusted for price change— increased at an annual rate of 2.6 percent in the fourth quarter of 2014, according to the...

More evidence that the world economy has never fully recovered from the financial collapse of 08’ emerged on Tuesday as the IMF was forced to lower their previous predictions on the global outlook for 2015.The IMF’s gloomy reassessment...

On Dec. 23, the Bureau of Economic Affairs (BEA) issued their revised GDP numbers for the 3rd quarter of 2014. And while the overall aggregate of consumer spending was down for most of the reporting period, one revision in particular helped...

According to the U. S. Department of Commerce (DOC), the manufacturing sector has added more than 700,000 jobs over the last four-and-a-half years and growing twice the rate of GDP. The idea of a career in this sector may not sound appealing to...

New Jersey rap artist GDP has joined forces with Philadelphia electronic music producer Space Jesus to form the group "Hash Money". Stylized as “#$” the now Brooklyn, New York based duo released an EP of the same name that...

Great amounts of money are spent on sex and illegal drugs every year around the world. United Kingdom and Italy decided to put a price on illegal activities and added it into their GDP.According the U.K.’s Office of National Statistics...

Two of New Jersey's rising acts will join forces on an upcoming split. The acts in question? The Front Bottoms and GDP.According to Property Of Zack, The Front Bottoms dropped the big news at SXSW yesterday. No word on when this split will be...

On December 5, the Commerce Department released revised growth rates for the third quarter of 2013. The news that the annualized growth rate had increased from 2.8%, a rate that marginally exceeds population growth, to 3..6% a rate that, if...

Eugenio Proto from the Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy at the University of Warwick and Aldo Rustichini from the University of Minnesota presented new research in the Nov. 27, 2013, edition of the journal Public Library of...

While the Bureau of Economic Analysis on Thursday in Washington, D.C. reported a preliminary 2.8 percent real gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate in the third quarter of 2013, White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) Chairman Jason...

Try as they might, the House Republicans and foolhardy Tea Party didn’t break the economy. It grew at 2.8% that is greater than the expected 2%. If some adjustments are made for the shutdown by subtracting a half percent, that will still be...

Researchers from Leyden Academy on Vitality and Aging in the Netherlands published new research in the Oct. 7, 2013, edition of the British Medical Journal that indicates death rates for middle-aged and elderly people increase when a nation&rsquo...

There is an old axiom “Figures don’t lie but liars figure”. This phrase might as well be on Obama’s desk in place of Truman’s “The buck stops here” sign. The administration is faced with the problem of...